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From: Fred-List manager (fholsoncohousing.org) | |
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 05:10:40 -0800 (PST) |
Beth Baker <bethbaker [at] starpower.net> To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org Re: [C-L]_ Greenhouse and Eden Alternative is the author of the message below. It was posted by Fred, the Cohousing-L list manager <fholson [at] cohousing.org> after deleting several quoted messages and combining two posts (the ferts sent prematurely). Please delete quoted material not speciically needed for contest, particularly when the quote has a quote of previoouse message (which may have a quote of a previous message...). -------------------- FORWARDED MESSAGE FOLLOWS -------------------- I've been following the various threads relating to aging with great interest. As a journalist who has covered aging issues for 20+ years, I'm really pleased to see cohousing exploring all this. My earlier book, Old Age in a New Age looked at the movement to re-create nursing homes, including the Green House. My more recent book, With a Little Help from Our Friends, looks at grassroots alternatives to traditional retirement communities or to living alone, and I include a chapter on co-housing, of course. The Green House is more than just a small, homey setting--it involves radically changing the hierarchal staff structure in a nursing home. In the Green House, specially-trained aides run the home on behalf of the elders, with nurses, docs and therapists bringing their services to the home. The aide's goal is transformed from a checklist of tasks (so many baths, so many meals) to essentially challenging themselves to make each elder's life as pleasant and meaningful as possible. It's a wonderful model and the research on it is very promising. A key thing to be aware of is that Green Houses were created as a way to serve everyone, including those who aren't wealthy, i.e. they take people on Medicaid. Which is great, except that also means that Green Houses must meet all the regulations of a regular nursing home. For that reason, almost all of them are operated by nonprofit retirement communities as add-ons to their campus. To my knowledge, only Sheridan, Wyoming, has a community-owned, unaffiliated nursing home (which is documented in the 2015 film Homes on the Range). To the best of my knowledge, ... [send hit by mistake, continued:] Sorry to be so long-winded. I just want to conclude by saying an alternative would be to create a small-house assisted living model that would offer many similar services, but not require the same degree of regulation. A lot of it depends on the income level of your members. If you don't want to be covered by Medicaid, it will likely be very expensive for folks to live there. But there may also be creative ways to re-invent all this. I'd be happy to continue discussing this at any time. Cheers, Beth Baker 12 Sherman Avenue Takoma Park, MD 20912 (301)270-8969 (office) (301)537-1597 (cell) bethbaker [at] starpower.net www.bethbaker.net Facebook.com/withhelpfromourfriends Author, With a Little Help from Our Friends--Creating Community as We Grow Older (Vanderbilt University Press, May 2014) Available through your local bookstore: Or from other booksellers Powell's Amazon Barnes & Noble
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Re: Greenhouse and Eden Alternative Mary Baker, Solid Communications, February 4 2016
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Re: Greenhouse and Eden Alternative Mary Baker, Solid Communications, February 4 2016
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